[how to wash strawberries] how to wash strawberries

Spring is the best season to eat strawberries, looking at a bright and attractive strawberry, do you want to bite it? But before you eat strawberries, you have to wash them. How do you wash strawberries? Below we share with you the method of washing strawberries.

When strawberries are on the market in large quantities, red looks very attractive. However, strawberry surface is relatively rough, how to clean, but let many people headache. The main nutritional value of strawberries is reflected in their very high vitamin C content. In recent years, studies have found that vitamin C can prevent scurvy, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other diseases, have a positive preventive effect. In addition, carotene in strawberries is an important substance for the synthesis of vitamin A, which has the effect of improving eyesight and nourishing liver. The latest foreign research also pointed out that strawberries contain an amine substance, which has certain efficacy in treating leukemia and aplastic anemia.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that strawberries have the effect of removing fire, relieving summer heat and clearing heat. Spring people's liver fire is often vigorous. Eating strawberries can inhibit it. In addition, strawberries are best eaten after meals, because they contain a lot of pectin and cellulose, which can promote gastrointestinal motility, help digestion, improve constipation, and prevent hemorrhoids and intestinal cancer. Strawberries are difficult to clean, mainly because of their rough appearance, and thin skin, a wash on the broken. Therefore, many people in order to save trouble, simply rinse with water to eat. In fact, strawberries belong to herbs, plants are relatively low, fruit tender and juicy, which make it vulnerable to pests and microorganisms. Therefore, in the process of planting strawberries, pesticides should be used frequently. These pesticides, fertilizers and germs are easy to adhere to the rough surface of strawberries. If they are not cleaned, they are likely to cause diarrhea and even pesticide poisoning. To clean strawberries, it is best to wash them constantly with tap water, which prevents pesticides from penetrating into the fruit.

How to wash strawberries

1. Do not remove the leaf head when washing strawberries. Even if you must go, only remove the leaves and keep the petioles, so that the flesh of strawberries that are in direct contact with water will not be exposed to the outside.

Note: Do not remove the strawberry stalk before washing the strawberry, so as not to let pesticides and pollutants penetrate into the fruit through the "wound" during the soaking process, but cause pollution.

2. Remove the leaves from the strawberries and rinse them continuously with running tap water for a few minutes to remove most of the germs, pesticides and other pollutants on the strawberry surface. Strawberries can also be sweeter and ruddy.

Note: Try not to soak strawberries in water first, so as to avoid pesticides dissolved in water and then absorbed by strawberries and penetrate into the fruit.

3. Soak strawberries in rice washing water for 3 minutes. Alkaline rice washing water has the effect of decomposing pesticides. Rice flour in rice washing water will take away soil, dust, and other substances. This method can also be used to wash grapes.

4, take a small basin of water, add appropriate amount of salt, make light salt water, and immerse strawberries in it for 3 minutes, light salt water can make insects and eggs attached to the strawberry surface float, easy to be washed away by water, and have a certain disinfection effect. Rinse with running tap water. Rinse again with cold boiled water and the strawberries will be clean.

Note: Avoid rubbing with hands as much as possible, and do not use detergents. Strawberries have almost no peel, rubbing will damage the peel, so washed strawberries can not be preserved. The detergent will penetrate into the flesh, so remember not to wash strawberries with detergent.

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When cleaning strawberries, do not remove the strawberry stalk, so as not to let pesticides and pollutants penetrate into the fruit through the "wound" during the soaking process, and then remove it when eating.

Strawberry because the plant is relatively short, the fruit is tender and juicy, in order to prevent pests, microbial invasion to often use pesticides, so before eating strawberries must be cleaned oh. As for how to wash strawberries, you can wash them according to the method shared above.